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GUI/Kernel Skins
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:55 am
by Uaintseenme
I've only seen a few of these before and they were pretty crappy. Anyone have any real great gui skins/different kernels for Windows? I'm talkin' transparent windows, totally replaced taskbar, completely sleek look and low priority when it comes to resources.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:20 pm
by Eraser
different kernels for windows... :lol:
Just to clear something up, the kernel is really the core of the operating system, the beating heart so to speak and has
nothing to do with the visual representation on the screen. Just so you know
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:25 pm
by Uaintseenme
Oh...I thought you could replace that kernel with a different one? lol I dunno, I'm just talking about these skins that complete alter the whole windows interface.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:26 pm
by 4days
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:30 pm
by netrex
Heh.. They're using Mambo to run their site and they seem to have removed the copyright notice for it. That's hardly legal
You can't buy your way out of it with Mambo.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:32 pm
by Uaintseenme
Oh yea! Shells not Kernels haha, ok yea. Checking the link, looks pretty nice.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:33 pm
by plained
i use default
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:37 pm
by 4days
netrex wrote:Heh.. They're using Mambo to run their site and they seem to have removed the copyright notice for it. That's hardly legal
You can't buy your way out of it with Mambo.
apparently they're okay with that.
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=19983
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:43 pm
by diego
4days wrote:http://www.geoshell.com/
is pretty good.
Looks awesome
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:47 pm
by netrex
Ok. Didn't know that. Specially since they have a service for reporting sites without it =)
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:08 pm
by Uaintseenme
Ok I installed Geoshell, restarted and all I had access to was my desktop wallpaper i.e. absolutely nothing. Like it failed to load, so I had to restart in safemod and uninstall. wtf?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:02 pm
by PhoeniX
Uaintseenme wrote:Oh...I thought you could replace that kernel with a different one? lol I dunno, I'm just talking about these skins that complete alter the whole windows interface.
That's linux/unix you're thinking of.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:58 pm
by 4days
Uaintseenme wrote:Ok I installed Geoshell, restarted and all I had access to was my desktop wallpaper i.e. absolutely nothing. Like it failed to load, so I had to restart in safemod and uninstall. wtf?
what happened when you right-clicked. did you see the regular desktop context menu or the geoshell menu?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:58 pm
by Uaintseenme
neither of them
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:01 pm
by 4days
no idea then sorry.
at a guess i'd say it was caused by something between the monitor and the wall behind you.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:03 pm
by Uaintseenme
The only thing I could see was my desktop wallpaper, it's like neither of my shells felt like loading and left me with a big fat away message.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:09 pm
by 4days
geoshell's worth persevering with if you can get it to work, otherwise check out
http://www.shellcity.net for alternatives.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:21 pm
by Uaintseenme
thx